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About Me

📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hi! I'm a 21 year-old college student & software developer from North Plainfield, NJ.
I've always loved anything technology related, from building custom PCs & mechanical keyboards, to hacking/modding retro handhelds like my Nintendo 3Ds and PSVita, and a love and appreciation of video games.
Otherwise, ask me about bouldering, or what i'm reading!

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Skills

Java C Kotlin Python HTML/CSS JavaScript Git GitHub Psychopy Jupyter Notebook Tableau Unity Blender Ultimaker Cura
Web Development Shell Scripting Data Visualization Game Development Hardware Assembly

Certificates

Unity Essentials Pathway (Unity)
2D & 3d Design 2D Assets 3D Assets Basic C# Scripting Content Creation Unity Editor Unity Engine

Responsive Web Design (freeCodeCamp.org)
HTML5 CSS3 Responsive Design Accessibility Web Standards

Experience

Education

Temple University

B.S. in Computer Science • May 2027

I'm a junior Computer Science major at Temple University in the College of Science and Technology & Honors Program. I'm skilled in Java and C from coursework, and have self-taught understandings in Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and some C# in Unity. I have experience in leadership as an Honors Ambassadors Coordinator, and Peer mentor.
Right now I'm actively engaged in university policy through the General Education Executive Committee, event organization, and technical projects in undergraduate research.

North Plainfield High School

GPA: 3.96 | SAT: 1320 | AP Scholar with Distinction • June 2023

Outside of taking AP Computer Science classes during High School, I fell in love with robotics as a founding member, programming lead (Java), and captain of FIRST Team 9116. Other than leading the FRC team, as head student referee I led the annual First Lego League competition we hosted to promote robotics in the community, especially for younger grades and families.

Work

VIDAR Lab

Undergraduate Student Researcher • June 2025 - Present

Full-time research position as a part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience 2025 (SURE) within Temple University's College of Science and Technology. I worked collaboratively on a project investigating optimization of human performance in image-matching tasks using a neural network-generated database.
For this research, we developed and launched a 60-participant user study built in Psychopy and deployed through GitHub Pages. My contributions consisted of tasks such as writing custom code in Python and JavaScript, as well as significance testing in jupyter notebook with pandas, bambi, statsmodels, and other libraries.

Temple University Honors Program

Honors Student Worker • February 2024 - Present

Currently in a project-based role as an Honors Program student worker. Other than assisting with advising check-in, I work on projects for the Temple University Honors Program such as cleaning and organizing data of honors courses, updating website content, and utilizing Tableau for data visualization for internal reports.

Get in touch!

Contact Details

Marco Given
📍 Philadelphia, PA
📍 Plainfield, NJ & NYC Metro Area (Summer)

Phone: (908) 644-5801

Email: marcogiven15@gmail.com